So, clearly the remedy to deficits is to increase government spending using a flawed Keynesian model, right?  Obama’s response was to propose a budget which had a deficit higher than the combined deficits of all of the previous budgets in US history.  That seems sane.  He also wants to create massive new entitlements which will inevitably lead to health care rationing, as well as an experimental cap and trade system that puts environmental theory ahead of needs of struggling American companies.  The intellectual response to Bush’s foreign policy that has kept us safe has been to run around apologizing to other countries, to offer to negotiate with a government in Iran while it is repressing its citizens after a sham election and to support the ousted President of Honduras who tried to trample over that country’s Constitution.  I guess we can expect more of this enlightened leadership, especially when we demagogue the opposition by calling them a threat to the republic.  Come on.

The Drug War has been going on since well before I was born, and is likely to continue in its present state well after I die. Given the current tactics, the Drug War is absolutely unwinnable and it is our current drug policy that is responsible for the violence on the Mexican border. The moniker Drug War, like the War on Terror seems to be a euphemistic term, but it is only euphemistic in that in both wars, the United States is not doing what's necessary to win, we are not going all in.

A war is as black and white as it comes, you're either on one side or the other. Trying to paint the War on Drugs in shades of grey dooms us to failure. As a society, we need to make a decision about what we will tolerate and what we will not. What we do tolerate needs to be made fully legal, what we do not needs to be criminalized and penalized harshly. The extremes are the Dutch model of legalization, and Singapore's model of zero tolerance, we need to pick one for each drug, and if we do so, we will win the Drug War.

As an example, marijuana is widely used and widely available as an illicit drug. Society might decide that it is tolerable and legalize it. Heroine on the other hand, is dangerous and intolerable, we need to criminalize its sale with a mandatory life sentence for selling it. We need to attack supply and not demand. With such a harsh penalty, the cost of selling the drug would go through the roof and as a result the quantity demanded would fall dramatically.

Opponents of mine would say that my policy constitutes cruel and unusual punishment and assume that the prison population would skyrocket. They would be wrong on both counts. Because of the cost of selling, transactions would likely move off of street corners and be very secure. We would have fewer arrests, not more. Additionally, we would eradicate the street drug dealers and dry up the revenue stream of local gangs that terrorize urban neighborhoods as the cost of using a middleman would be too high. In terms of cruel and unusual punishment, there's nothing cruel and unusual about jail time for a crime, particularly one as insideous as selling drugs.

Our issue now is that we are still criminilizing drugs, but the punishment is not requisite to act as a deterrent, particularly given the fact of overcrowding of prisons. Sentences are often extremely short and prisons in California serve as a breeding ground for further gang activity. Unfortunately, overcrowded prisons benefit prison guards, as other economic factors complicate the simple task of winning the Drug War.

Finally, the Mexican drug cartels and all gangs should be treated as domestic terrorists. We need to give the police the tools to effectively defeat the gangs, and those tools include the increased use of force and property seisures. All individuals who are in the United States illegally and engaging in gang activity, particularly the selling of drugs, need to be reclassified as enemy combatants and detained at a facility like Guantanamo Bay. We can win the War on Drugs, but we need to utilize the tools at our disposal and we cannot blur the line between the good guys and the bad guys.

supply-side economics has been rendered. The era of multiculturalism and internationalism is upon us. That's what the mainstream media and the liberal Democrats want everyone to think and that's what they will bombard us with over the next several months. They will say that Obama's election represents a fundamental shift in American politics and that the financial crisis that we face is a result solely of conservative policies. While the secular-progressives have taken the first round, the fight for the future of the United States of America is far from over.

Make no mistake, the groundwork for Tuesday's victory has been in the works for decades, and a confluence of events has led to the election of the most liberal American president in history. The bulk of Obama's base lies in the youth, a base that has been cultivated through decades of carefully crafted influence in schools. In America's education system, secular-progressive values are championed and taught as the norm. Rather than an unambilvalent appreciation of America, our civics, our history and our Constitution, educators, who heavily supported Obama this year, have been systematically bombarding our youth about the ills of America. Rather than discussing Columbus's discovery of America, they teach about the maltreatment of the Indians, instead of discussing the greatness of the American Revolution, the focus is on the oppression of minority groups, and instead of discussing the great victory over tyranny in World War II, they talk about the destruction caused by the bombs that ended the war. Rather that focusing on the rich culture that has developed in this country, we celebrate in schools the holidays of other nations, such as Cinco de Mayo, and the Chinese New Year.

In addition to the revisionist version of American history, the left uses the schools to promote their athestic values and their multicultural vision of the world. Students are discouraged from making value judgements and are encouraged to refrain from judging actions in general. The basic concept of right and wrong is being distorted in schools, with right supposedly being "tolerance" or acceptance, and wrong being the ability to stand out from the crowd or to make judgements. We even see this in sports, as participation awards have largely supplanted awards for achievement. The over-arching theme of acceptance and tolerance is the norm, except towards those few souls who challenge the norm, where the swift result is ostricization and isolation. The result: unquestioning conformity and general debauchery.

At the high school in San Francisco where I coach baseball, there was a recent mock-election in which Obama won 95% of the vote among the students, and CA Prop 8, which defines marriage as being between a man and a woman, was defeated by an even larger margin. A player on my team told me it was almost like a communal school effort to get Obama elected. Although this is a private school, these statistics of conformity are alarming and can be devestating to the country at large. This school is not a learning center, it's an indoctrination center.

The battle for our country must begin with reclaiming our schools. The internationalist agenda has been taught for too long, and it's time that we learn again to appreciate the value of America, the last, best hope for the rest of the world. Conservatives must fight for America, and we must preserve our culture, which is under seige.

Thomas Sowell in this article writes a great analysis and illustration of the election.  It does seem that Americans are being hoodwinked by Obama, the Democrats and the mainstream media.  It is amazing that the Democrats, whose hands are all over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose policies many have said have propped up the companies, escape this scandal with virtually no culpability.  It's further amazing that a man like Obama, the second highest funded politician by Fannie Mae, with its CEO as a policy advisor, who advocates similar policies as those that got us into this crisis in the first place, benefits.  It speaks to the lack of political capital of the Bush Administration and the inability of the GOP to communicate to the public about who Obama really is.